17 Quotes by Eugene Debs

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

It seems to me that if it were not for resistance to degrading conditions, the tendency of our whole civilization would be downward; after a while we would reach the point where there would be no resistance, and slavery would come

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.

Socialism and prison are antagonistic terms.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.